AuthorTopic: Transylvanian Chronicles OOC 2 (Read 32826 times)

Sort of, from what I can tell the two final bosses actually scale with your level - with the pre-final being significantly weaker than you and the true final being 1-4 levels above you

Also I was a hella good doctor man until the end of chapter 6 and then I ate everyone with every clue unlocked (it took like 40 minutes of sitting through the kiling animations) and became a god.

Having 120 k+ exp to spend feels really really good by the way.

Thelma best character <3

But for real what killed it for me was the voice acting was legitimately awful, the combat was meh but I was expecting it to be. There were like, 3 good voice actors in that, and they all had so few lines. Elizabeth and the MC were terrible.

I guess this is BZ’s way of subtly telling me it’s never too late to continue a game

Seriously though, I know that is a hundred times harder to start something back up compared to starting something new. It takes a huge effort just to try to go back through to see all the players and threads and can be too daunting. It took me a while to jump back into Disciples after that last break and I'm just now starting to feel like I know where I'm going with it again.

So, we super-love this setting of yours and especially our characters.

But maybe it's just too deep at this point to slog through the last bit of the current adventure.

That said, perhaps writing this one off and fast forwarding the game into the modern world might be an answer.

Kiril and Barabus could have escaped and we wonder where they are to this day. Both make excellent Antagonists, because everyone wants to kill them haha!

We caught the guy and proved our innocence and thus started the crusades and the formation of the Camarilla and Sabbat, etc.

We could have an XP party, build out our characters to god level aberrations, decide where they ended up - and retire them as Elders and Princes to play new Vamps - or keep up the super OP power-gaming in the new setting lol!

Anyway, whatever you do or don't do - this was the best fun I ever had playing Vampire the Masquerade by far!

The main problem i'm having is just Seth's disappearance. Kiril is an extremely intensive character to play and RP correctly given that he's also Husayn, has one of the most important/complex mortal characters (Barabus) as a servant, and is prince of one of the most important cities in the setting. His character also has a critical role to play with the Assamite faction.

And him leaving the game actually Farked me super hard because I also have to RP Kiril as well as everything else now, and if I don't then all the characters i've built and associated with him, especially Barabus, will fade into the background/out of the game altogether.

It's just so much to keep track of at this point, and i'm sure you guys noticed but it was getting to the point that each update was taking me 1-2+ hours, and that was AFTER I just started fudging rolls to make things cooler/less stressful to keep track of (which i'm also sure you all noticed)

Honestly, I'd have to look through the setting notes again to really get all the details, but given Seth leaving I would just have his consciousness be subsumed entirely by Husayn after Husayn sees how weak and twisted Kiril was becoming. Something along the lines of "You aren't worthy of being Basilio's son"

Barabus stuff is too spoilery for me to reveal

Honestly I wouldn't even be all too opposed to continuing, I just wasn't sure if you guys would even want to given it's been a couple years since my last update and I would have to basically fudge the end of this chapter, basically retcon Kiril's participation by having Husayn take over and leave, and bring us up to the next one.

Well, it was always really BZ, Forge, Aman and Daed who were the core four of the playthrough, though I don't know if D is around anymore. but unlike Seth D will have left me with two really good NPCs to make use of with Saladin being pretty awesome while not being too important to the story, and Lucius being absolutely ridiculously insane and an awesome way to personify Kupala

We could have an XP party, build out our characters to god level aberrations, decide where they ended up - and retire them as Elders and Princes to play new Vamps - or keep up the super OP power-gaming in the new setting lol

I actually like the idea of having us just decide what happened in the next 50-100years, and then starting new Childer with the backstory set up. I feel like that's a lot easier for you drak and also a lot of fun where we're playing VtM but BHB-VtM, with our crazy characters being tied to the metaplot.

So, I just finished re reading chapter 2 and the 8 chapter 2 associated threads. Got a pretty good idea of where we were. I might start to update this today, when I get home in about an hour, or more likely later tonight, after we talk a bit about the game.

So right now, reference desk is down. Rp portal was also taken down. There are a number of sites outside of those two but none of them are nearly as good as either of them were.

I have most of the books in either physical or pdf format but the problem is that looking powers up from individual books is a massive pain in the ass, as there are many variations of each ability, and there are many different options for discipline powers at 6 and up.

From now on I think any level ups will, until I can find another quality discipline list, will have to be you guys going out and searching for vampire powers, or asking me if something might be possible.

Also, I can just barely handle how long it takes to update character sheets and roll out large encounters. I’m considering just more or less deciding the majority of fights by averages or by ear, or by rule of cool - keeping in mind that I have been doing this for quite a bit of what has already been done and written, the exception being any conflict that might erupt between player characters and perhaps some special fights (for example if you guys fight an oncredibly important preplanned character like Gauthier). I trust each of you quite a bit of players and don’t believe that you would screw things up, and I trust that you guys also trust me to write as fun of a story as I can while operating under those rules. Re-reading the massive, almost novel length adventure that we’ve written together makes me certain that we can continue doing so under that format, if you guys are willing to do so.

Yeah, it's amazing how long we've been at this and including the old days on CYS haha!

I here as long as you guys for sure!

Also - one of these days, we all need to get together face-to-face somewhere for a weekend of real gaming. One of the coolest things I ever did was host 'Cabin Con' for my old gaming group. We spent the weekend in a super remote cabin (fireplace and everything) and played a crap-ton od both board games and RPGs. The only downside was the outhouse and the fact it was the middle of January haha!

I'd be down for some DnD if that's what you've got the material for, i've never actually played a DnD game but i've always been a big fan of it (and as you can see in the other thread I posted I Farking love kingmaker).

Or would you be willing to put yourself through the horror of a Final War Sequel where I demolish Aman and only Aman because no one else would play? XD

Also i'm actually really happy where I left off. If i'd stopped at a point where all of you were still in your 9 separate threads I would have probably just given up, but after reading through everything you guys are all together right now for the first time in the last couple hundred posts of vampire

Cabincon would be hilarious. Though jury's still out on if any of you are murderers. We've had 1 of all internet horror stories except that one.

Lady Z & I are too old to be killers (unless we are the highly successful type who have never been caught ) and anyone can see our real selves on EliteTSD.Com.

You have met Drak face-to-face and lived to tell the tale, so at least we know he won't chop up his gaming buddies and stick them in the freezer.

Forge is a Medical Professional, so we can totally trust him, even if he brings his bag of scalpels, bone saws, and other medical implements with him to cabin con.

That jus leaves Killa, who is obviously the serial killer among us, because he has been to the Philippines and has the word "Killa" in his username in a reverse phycology way of trying to throw off suspicion.

Yup, totally trust the guy with access to a ridiculous amount of lethal drugs and equipment every day

As for what I would run... I'd start with a short DnD 5e mini-adventure. I own most of the materials up to date in hard copy but I also own everything on fantasy grounds which is an online tabletop game which, If I get you all on free accounts, you could all access so you could make any build on it for the game. Or just find the info online.

then you could just use the materials and I could run it on here like normal.

Yup, totally trust the guy with access to a ridiculous amount of lethal drugs and equipment every day

As for what I would run... I'd start with a short DnD 5e mini-adventure. I own most of the materials up to date in hard copy but I also own everything on fantasy grounds which is an online tabletop game which, If I get you all on free accounts, you could all access so you could make any build on it for the game. Or just find the info online.

then you could just use the materials and I could run it on here like normal.

Custom. For the current games I run I do 1 module and 1 homebrew adventure set in the Sword Coast world setting and both I and the players think the homebrew is more fun since I can weave in backstory arcs to the main plot etc.

Ours would be more stand alone, I'd prob plan for a Shortish adventure first then continue it if people enjoyed it enough and there was enough interest in doing so.

On a related note... I passed my further qualifications stuff with flying colors so that's 1 less stress gone

Running custom stuff blows my mind. There's so much work that has to go into it. I don't know that I would have ever run vampire if I didn't have the transylvania by night modules to give me a setting and background.

Though I guess I ended up editing the plot in a bunch of places anyway (God the ending for the OG chronicles sucks ass).

Further CT stuff just but it's good on my resume and opens new job possibilities.

I found I just love doing the world building. I started with the basic forgotten realms stuff... then massively changed most of it including but not limited to: Hostory and it's mayor events, some cities and most towns and villages, famous people. Some minor things on how magic works. gods and religion in general as well as specifics about why and how they can interact with mortals. Lichdom I changed loads esp process etc. Several other realms, esp. the fae realm and the abyss.

So, Aman, I remember for sure that I let you buy the custom ritual I made that gives you wings, but I just noticed that you don't have any of the other Abyss Mysticism rituals on your character sheet. I know you have the level 2 one that lets you summon living shadow (Heart-That-Beats-In-Silence), you don't have anything else do you?

Lady Z & I are too old to be killers (unless we are the highly successful type who have never been caught ) and anyone can see our real selves on EliteTSD.Com.

You have met Drak face-to-face and lived to tell the tale, so at least we know he won't chop up his gaming buddies and stick them in the freezer.

Forge is a Medical Professional, so we can totally trust him, even if he brings his bag of scalpels, bone saws, and other medical implements with him to cabin con.

That jus leaves Killa, who is obviously the serial killer among us, because he has been to the Philippines and has the word "Killa" in his username in a reverse phycology way of trying to throw off suspicion.